Crossword-Solution: TANGRAMS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

You find things that have neither bulk nor motion but look like nothing so much as a box of Chinese tangrams scattered on a table.

This gentleman, it is said, records that there were originally seven books of Tangrams, compiled in China two thousand years before the Christian era.

But it is another pastime altogether to create new and original designs of a pictorial character, and it is surprising what extraordinary scope the Tangrams afford for producing pictures of real life--angular and often grotesque, it is true, but full of character.

This box and book, along with quite a collection of other relics, were sent to my grandfather and descended to myself." My correspondent kindly supplied me with rubbings of the Tangrams, from which it is clear that they are cut in the exact proportions that I have indicated.

CHAPTER LX PARLOR TRICKS AND PUZZLES TANGRAMS ONE of the oldest and most fascinating puzzles comes, like so many quaint things, from the Far East where, over four thousand years ago, a learned Chinaman named Tan made the invention which forty centuries have been unable to improve or alter.